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Acoustic Emissions
Test bearing wear and tear in rotating machinery with Portamonitor® condition monitoring tool.
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Inspect your rotating machinery bearings with Portamonitor® the best bearing checking instrument. Choose acoustic emission technology in your condition monitoring practices. Acoustic emission testing is better than vibration monitoring. Click on the Portamonitor® below for a faster, better, cheaper method.
Portamonitor® Bearing Indicator
Acoustic emission non-destructive testing is vital for bearing condition monitoring. Bearings are used in a wide array of rotating machinery such as pumps, engines, motors. Damaged bearings cause inefficiency resulting in undue downtime and costs. If left unchecked, it could eventually catastrophic machinery failure. By addressing correct bearing lubrication early and choosing Portamonitor bearing test equipment you can save time and cost, whilst improving safety.
What is condition monitoring?
Using appropriate condition monitoring tools such as acoustic emission testing matters because bearing wear and tear can result in wasted time, money and resources.
When to use a bearing tester instrument?
The handheld Portamonitor can be used for pre-service bearing condition testing as well as in-service testing and condition monitoring.
How to use a bearing condition tester?
Portamonitor® is incredibly easy to use:
1. Simply turn the unit on
2. Apply ultrasonic gel to the sensor and surface you are testing
3. Press the search button and place on bearing for 10 seconds
4. Results will then show
A demonstration video of how to measure machine health can be found here: Portamonitor® Demonstration Video
Benefits of Portamonitor® Reporting Options compared to other bearing checkers
Portamonitor® has two units of measurement for bearing health: decibel and Distress®. Distress® provides an instant indication of the health of the bearings. It measures impacts, friction and surface deformation caused by micro-pitting and fractures. Algorithms inside the Portamonitor® sort this data for comparison against acceptable limits categorised by a number.
Utilising acoustic emission condition monitoring, the Portamonitor® operates precisely how the user expects and wants – indicating the current state and progressive condition of bearings in two simple and easy to understand values:
a. Distress Level – Current state: 'OK' 'SUSPECT' 'POOR' (inc. numerical equivalent).
b. Decibel Level – Trend (Ability to track degradation over time).
Display on the bearing checking instrument
The display on the Portamonitor® will show a numeric value indicating the level of distress, for instance: 5-10 indicates the system in "OK". Between the value of 10-15 indicates the system is "SUSPECT", and requires further monitoring, whereas >15 indicates a "POOR" system and requires attention.
Enquire now to find out more about how Portamonitor® will help you.
A condition monitoring system will assess the early detection of failure and acoustic monitoring systems or acoustic emissions techniques are essential. Acoustic condition-based monitoring will provide warnings of developing problems as well as the potential to apply new techniques. Acoustic monitoring equipment will use techniques based on the use of accelerometers, the vibration analysis can be classified into three categories. Acoustic emission monitoring systems provide a range of features and areas of excellence, they're known for providing the best protection and longest period of warnings for potential damage and eventual failure. Acoustic monitoring systems can help to prevent the worst and when problems have been identified, the appropriate technologies can be recommended in order to provide a complete picture of the likely failure mechanism.
The acoustic condition monitoring indicators that we manufacture are condition indicator tools that use powerful monitoring techniques in order to analyse the heath state of machinery, especially when it comes to the health and lubrication of bearings. It includes magnetic sensors that can be attached to a machineries outer casting and take readings over a short period of time, helping to assess the condition of the moving parts within. An overall noise decibel level (dB) will be returned with a distress level, measurements can then be analysed quickly and compared to other readings in order to discover if preventative maintenance is necessary. Robust ultrasonics can take 1000 readings between charges, this is done through standard USB leads to ensure easy charging for users. The system will aid identification of mechanically deteriorated bearings and bearings that have inadequate or contaminated lubricant.
Acoustic Condition Based Monitoring
The acoustic ultrasonic monitoring indicators that we provide here at Coltraco aim to enhance preventative maintenance and condition based monitoring through comparing accurate and repeatable results to past measurements. These tools are essential in order to plan for future repairs and make quick fixes before bigger faults occur, they're also extremely sensitive, so the results are very accurate. The acoustic emission leak detection will detect high frequency ultrasonic stress waves that are associated with friction and other faults with machinery in poor conditions. Acoustic conditioning is most suitable for use on motors, pumps, fans, generators and other rotating machinery applications, the results include two outputs that will be displayed simultaneously, decibel (dB) and a Distress level.
Coltraco's acoustic based monitoring tool is the first of its type in the world, the pocket size Portamonitor includes a powerful ultrasonic monitoring technique to test bearings and rotating machinery and is suitable for a number of industries including ships and vessels. This tool will detect stress waves that are associated with friction and poor conditioning and will include a range of quick and efficient readings, then the acoustic Portamonitor will return an overall noise decibel and Distress level on a clear display. Our tools come with full instructions and ensure ease of use so that you can make sure that safety and integrity is enhanced and accessible. The acoustic monitoring Portamonitor has the ability to take 1000 readings between charges and is the perfect condition monitoring tool for making sure that bearings are in good condition and that they are adequately lubricated in vessel's engine rooms, bearings in motors, pumps, fans, gearboxes and other rotating machinery.
Acoustic Monitoring for Machinery
When it comes to machinery, early detection of failures and issues are crucial, listening and measuring with acoustic emission testing procedure can easily distinguish healthy bearings from damaged ones, this is through the onset of noise. The acoustic ultrasonic testing will cover a range of data including vibrations, rotations and temperature measurements, as well as alarms, acoustic monitoring in industry really is an effective solution. The acoustics will produce a broad sound spectrum that is usually monitored by vibration in low frequencies, some specific defects will produce acoustic waves that come with high frequencies, this will impact for bearings and gearboxes, friction or rubbing for lubrication and cavitation for pumps. One of the biggest advantages of acoustic condition monitoring equipment is that it's easy to monitor bearings and degradation that could be masked in low frequency analysis. The use of ultrasonic resonant sensors acts as a mechanical amplifier of high frequencies, ultrasonic acoustics comes with an excellent signal-to-noise ratio that allows the detection of weak variations from background vibrations. The results show that acoustic ultrasonic technology is selective in highlighting at an early stage, defects against low frequency problems as well as the great effectiveness in low speed equipment monitoring.
The Portamonitor is a state of the art condition monitoring tool, it's sensitivity means that it provides accurate results when detecting faults, the technology aids detection of deteriorated bearings when it comes to operating machinery, it can also identify bearings that may have inadequate lubrication or lubricant contamination. The Portamonitor provides unique signal detection and processing for bearings in motors, pumps, fans, gearboxes and other rotating machinery equipment and applications. The readings will provide insight into the planning of future repair actions, as well as assist in identifying the need for improved lubrication.
The acoustic instruments that we provide will listen for frictions and impacts that are caused by poor lubrication or bearing damage. Next, sound is generated by the bearings and this will propagate through the machine, using a sensor that sends a signal, the user will then be able to detect the noise by using signal processing, the user can then determine the condition of the bearing. A decibel reading will show the intensity of the signal being received, essentially this is how 'loud' the high frequency sound product by the bear is, it's not affected by sound that's audible to the human ear. The reading will increase with deteriorating function of the bearing, the decibel reading is a very repeatable measurement, if the state of the bearing hasn't changed, then the decibel reading won't either. It's recommended that logs are kept of the decibel reading for each site, this will permit identification of deteriorating bearings as the decibel reading begins to increase. The Distress signal will show how much the decibel reading is varying in level throughout one measurement, this will represent how much the bearing is knocking, clanking or grinding. This is a useful indicator of whether the bearing is damaged, poorly lubricated or malfunctioning, and whether it requires maintenance. This is useful as it's automatically calculated and displayed by the Portamonitor so it will need minimum input from the yser and will give a reliable and instant indication of the state of the bearing.
The Science of How it Works
Condition monitoring solutions using acoustic emission works on the principle of using transient elastic waves to detect the rapid release of strain energy caused by deformations or damage within the surface of materials. Strains, stresses and impacts produce transient stress (elastic) waves which can be effectively detected and occur in the very early stages of bearing degradation
Bearing Inspection Procedure
In laypersons terms, the acoustic instruments that we provide will "listen" for frictions and impacts that are caused by poor lubrication or bearing damage. Next, sound is generated by the bearings and this will propagate through the machine, using a sensor that sends a signal, the user will then be able to detect the noise by using signal processing, the user can then determine the condition of the bearing.
A decibel reading will show the intensity of the signal being received, essentially this is how 'loud' the high frequency sound product by the bear is, it's not affected by sound that's audible to the human ear. The reading will increase with deteriorating function of the bearing, the decibel reading is a very repeatable measurement, if the state of the bearing hasn't changed, then the decibel reading won't either. It's recommended that logs are kept of the decibel reading for each site, this will permit identification of deteriorating bearings as the decibel reading begins to increase.
The Distress signal will show how much the decibel reading is varying in level throughout one measurement, this will represent how much the bearing is knocking, clanking or grinding. This is a useful indicator of whether the bearing is damaged, poorly lubricated or malfunctioning, and whether it requires maintenance. This is useful as it's automatically calculated and displayed by the Portamonitor so it will need minimum input from the user and will give a reliable and instant indication of the state of the bearing.
More About Acoustic Monitoring
Acoustic emissions are one of the technologies for health monitoring and diagnosis of rotating machines, extensive research and investigation has shown the effectiveness of acoustic technologies in identifying types of defects in machinery. The application of signal processing methods are necessary for monitoring machinery and the use of condition monitoring tools has found to be effective in denoising the necessary signals. The Portamonitor is an innovative tool that allows these types of acoustic assessments to be carried out safely and accurately, it's the first of its type in the world, so when it comes to acoustic ultrasonic technology, Coltraco are the team to call on.
The Portamonitor is pocket size so can be carried around as needed, it includes only the most pioneering ultrasonic monitoring techniques, allowing you to test bearings and rotating machinery for a number of industries. The tool works by detecting stress waves that are associated with friction and poor conditioning, after providing a number of quick, effective and efficient readings, the tool will return an overall noise decibel and distress level on a clear display. The Coltraco Portamonitor comes with full instructions and guarantees ease of use, ensuring enhanced safety and integrity. What's more is the tool can take up to 1000 readings in between charges and it is an ideal condition monitoring tools for ensuring that bearings are in a good condition, as well as being adequately lubricated in vessel's engine rooms, bearings in motors, pumps, fans, gearboxes and other rotating machinery.
What are the benefits of Portamonitor® bearing indicator?
More About Coltraco
At Coltraco, all of our products are carefully hand built and undergo rigorous quality testing to make sure that they meet the high standards expected by our customers, as well as provide them with long term reliability.
Our customer care includes:
Guaranteed against defects in materials and workmanship
Technical support for the life time of all equipment, by telephone or email
The Portacare Plan
As well as standard after sales customer care, you can upgrade to Coltraco's Portacare plan, our 3-5 year total care and maintenance package includes:
Capping the cost of ownership during the term you choose.
Guarantee maximum operational ability so the equipment is ready to use whenever you need it.
Backup units are provided in the event of fault.
Supporting you above and beyond the warranty.
Providing you with peace of mind so that you can have confidence that your Portamonitor is maintained.
What are the advantages of condition monitoring?
Using appropriate condition monitoring tools matters because damage to bearings can result in undue downtime, wasted time, money and resources.
The handheld Portamonitor® can be used for pre-service bearing condition testing as well as in-service testing and condition monitoring.
Benefits of Portamonitor® condition monitoring report Options
The Portamonitor® has two units of measurement for bearing health: decibel and Distress®. Distress® provides an instant indication of the health of the bearings. It measures impacts, friction and surface deformation caused by micro-pitting and fractures. Algorithms inside the Portamonitor® sort this data for comparison against acceptable limits categorised by a number.
How does bearing monitoring save cost and time?
The Portamonitor® is a low cost and is very easy to use bearing servicing tool and easy to integrate into scheduled maintenance. Using this regularly extends the lifetime of key pumps, bearings and gearboxes saving significant amounts of money over the lifetime of the vessel, extending the time between machinery replacement and ensuring failures do not occur at critical times. The Portamonitor® offers faster processing time at sensor level, thus reducing overall maintenance time.
Why buy a bearing checker?
Almost all machinery that moves requires bearings for its rotating equipment. Degradation of the bearing happens over time. Condition based monitoring is important as bearings will fail for a number of reasons but the key take away is that ALL bearings will degrade at some point and if they are left unchecked, maintained or replaced WILL fail. A key failure comes from a lack of bearing lubricant. Using bearing monitoring equipment to understand the root cause of damage can help prevent future failures. According to ISO 15243, damage to rotating machinery left undiagnosed can actually mask the underlying cause if left too long.
Below is an example showing the progression of bearing damage that has become more severe, thus hiding the root cause:
Failure modes as categorised by ISO 15243
Do bearings need lubrication?
Most decay in bearing quality occur when lubrication has been used up in the bearing. Identifying machinery health and refilling the oil in the bearing a key way of extending life span. The Portamonitor® is the ideal tool for lubricant analysis condition monitoring. The Portamonitor® is a preventative bearing maintenance tool, a proven technology that can help users identify the onset of catastrophic failure and take planned action to prevent failure of machinery.
What types of bearings are commonly measured by the Portamonitor®?
Using acoustic bearing monitoring, condition and lubrication state of all rolling element bearings, examples such as: needle bearing. It is also ball bearing inspection method as well as roller bearing inspection.
The Portamonitor® also tests all hydrostatic and hydrodynamic bearings, examples such as: plain bearing (journal bearing, linear bearing, thrust bearing) & trankpin bearing.
What bearing rotation speeds can be measured by the Portamonitor®?
As low as 45 rpm to as high as 8,000 rpm.
Why use acoustic emission monitoring instead of vibration analysis?
Acoustic emission testing is very effective at detecting deformation due to formation of cracks or friction which occur in the very early stages, independent of machine dynamics. These defects give off an acoustic emission pulse well before they can be detected by vibrational analysis. Unlike Vibrational Analysis, the Portamonitor® is not influenced by the natural frequency of the machinery. Using acoustic emission monitoring, there is no need to remove the bearing for testing.
What types of bearing failure are covered by the Portamonitor®?
Excessive load – bearing damage and housing causing premature fatigue/failure
Overheating – excessive temperatures can anneal the ring and bearing material, reducing hardness causing early failure.
Beating Lubrication levels and contamination – causes friction contacts and mechanical impacts, respectively.
Crack formation – early stages of wear as a result of impacts or excessive loading can cause deformation and will evolve to failure.
Where are bearings found?
Steel production facilities
Steel and iron use cold rolling mill machinery. The working rolls of the plant are the most extensively monitored. This is quite a challenging bearing monitoring environment due to high temperatures, high and low-speed operation, as well as high contamination of water and debris
Slow turning rolling element bearings require monitoring in this industry. Machinery such as crushers, stackers, conveyors, vibrating feeders, magnetic separators, slurry and vacuum pumps, classifiers, agitators and compressors.
Paper processing industry
Paper making machine bearings operate under very high temperatures and can be vulnerable to fractures of the inner ring, causing stoppages in production. Monitoring is done to determine the condition of the rolling-element bearings of the rolls, roll alignment, balance, and the condition of the electric motors and gearboxes.
Many machines in this industry require monitoring of bearing condition, including crushers, mills, separators, roller presses, separators, conveyors, feeders, air compressors and fans. Most of which use rolling-element bearings powered by electric motors.
Gas and steam turbine generators and combined cycle plants require their most critical machines monitored. Dynamic rotating machines use high-speed rotating parts. The cost of failure in this industry is far-reaching.
Diesel engines, gas turbines and nuclear reactor powered ships utilise bearings in all areas, from crankshafts to pistons and pumps. Also, gearboxes fans and other motors onboard, such as alternators used to generate electricity.
When using the Portamonitor® for asset condition monitoring management, is it affected by environmental conditions?
The Portamonitor is not affected by environmental conditions which can mask late-onset bearing damage when analysing vibration data. Elastic waves that are produced by fractures or debris inside bearing systems produce various frequencies – all of which are analysed automatically inside the Portamonitor and converted to an easy to understand value allowing first-time users the ability to conduct advanced maintenance.
Equipment Inspection Procedure
The Portamonitor® bearing condition tester is incredibly easy to use.
2. Apply ultrasonic couplant to the sensor and surface you are testing
A demonstration video of how to measure machine health can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ebGUHcW0gI&t=11s
LPG Vessel Field Trial using Portamonitor® and Portasonic® 2.FL0
Coltraco Ultrasonics' engineers had a busy night successfully testing Portamonitor® and Portasonic® 2.FL0 during field trials onboard a LPG Vessel.
Learn more about how our Safeship® technology is right for you with the acoustic emissions portable bearing indicator Portamonitor® and portable ultrasonic transit time flow meter Portasonic® 2.FL0.
Many cases of catastrophic failure in bearings have occurred throughout the industry that could have been avoided if effective condition monitoring and maintenance had been in place. The following case study of bearing failure has been taken from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau:
On 7 March 1997, the Polish flag general cargo vessel Lodz 2 was using one of its own cranes, discharging a general cargo of steel products, including bundles of steel pipes, from no. 2 hold and tween deck. At about 0740, the sixth load of steel pipes, for that morning, was being discharged onto the wharf by no.1crane, a 12.5-tonne capacity crane situated on the aft end of the forecastle on the ships centreline. The load, weighing approximately 8.6 tonnes, consisted of 18 lengths with diameters varying up to 273 mm. As the load reached the side of the ship, there was a violent jolt and a bang as the slew bearing failed, then the crane fell from its pedestal into the port tween deck of no. 2 hold.
The jib struck the port bulwark, setting it down and out from the ships side, while the body of the crane hit the inboard edge of the port hatch coaming, before rotating through 180∞ and finishing up, upside-down, in the tween deck. The driver had fallen with the cab of the crane, approximately 17 metres into the tween deck from the cranes position on its pedestal. The crane was severely damaged and the badly twisted jib had to be cut up to remove it from the ship.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1997/mair/mair110/
According to studies conducted by the Mobius Institute. Defects are encapsulated in the following categories, shown in the following chart:
84% of degradation occurs once installed. Monitoring is essential for the detection of faults caused by fatigue or stress due to excessive load or use. Incorrect lubrication, as well as insufficient levels of lubrication, can cause friction which can lead to fractures among other defects. Also, contamination, both in the bearing housing or the lubrication can damage and reduce the life of bearings.
A bearing measurement tool can detect abnormalities caused by these and allow preparations for maintenance or replacement, ultimately avoiding failure and saving money. The cost of bearings is highly variable and depends on the position of the defect and if any associated damage has occurred as a result of the initial bearing failure. Figures can rise quickly, in severe cases when bearing monitoring has been limited and total failure has occurred then the cost can be tremendous. According to the International Institute of Marine Surveying the cost of some vessel machinery, by example:
DAMAGE COST (£)
Main Engine Crankshaft Failure 4,000,000.00
Turbocharger Failure (Large main engine) 580,000.00
Rudder Damage (Bulk carrier, US flag) 705,000.00
Reduction Gearbox Damage (push tug) 350,000.00
Auxiliary Engine Failure 380,000.00
Cargo Crane Slew Ring* 506,000.00
Cost has been converted to pounds (nearest thousand): See https://www.iims.org.uk/machinery-underwriters-problem/ for the original.
*case study included in this article: https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1997/mair/mair110/
All of the above contain bearings and if not monitored, or repaired when needed. The results could be catastrophic failure. This is just the cost of the replacement machinery, of course, this varies, especially when only small replacements are needed. A failure of a bearing is not just the part itself, the cost to a vessel owner is repair, fitting and downtime in dock and loss of earning whilst not operational. Needless to say, the process can become extremely expensive.
Of course, this is not limited to the shipping industry, other industries suffer the same problems with machinery failure and can be just as, or even more expensive to deal with. Without systematic procedures and planned maintenance (enabled by condition monitoring) then cost can be very damaging to a business.
The main bearing inspection indicators that we manufacture are condition indicator tools that use powerful monitoring techniques in order to analyse the heath state of machinery, especially when it comes to the health and lubrication of bearings. It includes magnetic sensors that can be attached to a machineries outer casting and take readings over a short period of time, helping to assess the condition of the moving parts within. An overall noise decibel level (dB) will be returned with a distress level, measurements can then be analysed quickly and compared to other readings in order to discover if preventative maintenance is necessary. Robust ultrasonics can take 1000 readings between charges, this is done through standard USB leads to ensure easy charging for users. The system will aid identification of mechanically deteriorated bearings and bearings that have inadequate or contaminated lubricant.
What are acoustic emission testing limitations?
Portamonitor is a handheld inspection product. It does not provide constant monitoring and as such does not have a remote alarm to alert when bearings need attention.
Compare Vibration Analysis Equipment (VA) vs. Acoustic Emissions (AE) Testing?
Both VA and AE are methods for monitoring the condition of bearings and are used to diagnose and determine severity of defects within various machinery.
Vibration Analysis testing: Accelerometers are devices built to conduct vibrational analysis, they are designed to pick up vibrations as an indicator of defects. Excessive vibrations can indicate a serious problem that requires maintenance before a catastrophic failure occurs. Complex software is then used in conjunction to analyse the vibrational data in order to diagnose machinery faults. This is the basis of VA.
Acoustic Emission: AE is used for effectively monitoring different machine conditions; balanced, unbalanced, misaligned and defecting bearings. Monitoring equipment using AE works on the principle of using transient elastic waves to detect the rapid release of strain energy caused by deformations or damage within the surface of materials. Strains, stresses and impacts produce transient stress (elastic) waves which can be effectively detected and occur in the very early stages of bearing degradation.
Why use AE?
AE is based on frequencies much higher than accelerometers using VA and with a larger range than what's capable with VA, typically around ~ 10 Hz-30 kHz, AE will operate within ~20 kHz-1 mHz, but more usefully around 100 kHz. The immediate advantage of this is that mechanical noise is no longer present in this range which allows the detection of defects in the very early stages. It is very important to be able to distinguish between machine noise and defect noise in order to avoid misdiagnosis.
Defect frequencies vary considerable and are highly dependent on machinery designs and component geometry and are also a function of bearing geometry, pitch, roller diameter and the relative speed between raceways. Fortunately, AE is less geometrically sensitive than VA. In order to establish defects using VA, a "base-line" needs to be established from the initial conditions of the machinery and used to indicate an irregular condition by monitoring an overall trend that will highlight anomalies.
Diagnosis using VA is not an easy task and requires highly technical knowledge, as well as being very time-consuming. An immediate drawback when monitoring the general condition of the entire machine is that the overall trend level may not show any significant change if the machine fault is not severe, or the signal is insensitive to the fault. With AE the detection of acoustic pulses are usually independent of any machine noise interference, especially at the high operating frequencies which is ideal when baseline frequencies are not known. This gives confidence that defects will not be missed.
Moreover, experiments conducted to test bearing operation at low speeds between [10-100 rev min-1] have shown that AE is effective at these speeds [Alshimmeri, 2017] and can effectively detect bearing defects when previously it was assumed that AE was mainly effective at high speeds. It seems that excessive loading will cause disruptions in the obtained signal as it can affect signal attenuation (or, how much signal is lost as a function of distance to the source). It has been found that the attenuation of signal remained constant at higher loads and can be distinguished fairly easily.
Bearing defects are essentially random but occur in natural stages and will usually worsen due to dynamical strains on the bearing components. Generally speaking, advanced stage defects will produce high intensity but low-frequency signals. The very early stages of wear will occur as a result of minuscule abnormalities, such as very small contaminants in lubrication, or small stresses and deformations in the material. Defects at this stage can only be detected in the very high-frequency range which is covered by AE monitoring.
It has been found that lubrication containing contaminants as small as 500 μm, about twice the size of a dust mite, which would ordinarily be missed using traditional methods, produces an AE pulse, detectible by AE monitoring. This is a clear indication of the usefulness of AE in this area compared to traditional vibrational analysis methods.
Although sources of defects are random in nature, the most important AE source is in the form of cracks, because they produce some of the highest frequencies. Cracks cause a displacement of the surrounding material which increases in magnitude and will usually evolve into more serious problems. It has been shown that vibrational analysis will not pick up defects at this stage, as it is beyond the frequency range. Other aspects of monitoring are arguably just as important as crack formation for the prevention of total failure but usually, occur in the later stages when the damage has already occurred. Being able to detect these early defects is highly advantageous. The table below summarises some common defects that occur in bearings:
TYPE OF FAILURE COVERED BY AE MONITORING?
Excessive load – damage to bearings and housing causing premature fatigue/failure. Yes: A change in loading conditions causes an increased output of AE signals.
Overheating – excessive temperatures can anneal the ring and bearing material, redu-cing hardness causing early failure. Yes: Related defects due to loss of hardness, such as deformities.
Lubricant levels and contamination – causes friction contacts and mechanical impacts, respectively. Yes: Increased friction causes detectible strain and mechanical impacts produce sudden releases' of elastic strain energy.
Crack formation – early stages of wear as a result of impacts or excessive loading can cause deformation and will evolve to failure. Yes: Particularly suitable for crack detection as pulses of AE are released in the early stages and can only be detected in the high-frequency range.
Unlike VA which requires manual processing of raw data, AE devices process raw data automatically at sensor level. AE devices, such as the Portamonitor®, commonly use algorithms to derive acoustic emission parameters of Distress® and db levels which give an indication of bearing health and overall noise respectively. This provides immediate clarification of defects and is easier to interpret. AE requires approximately 10 seconds of continuous monitoring at a consistent running speed, whereas alternatives typically requires 60 – 120 seconds of measurement to establish the same level of knowledge about the defect. Clearly, AE devices are a time-saving tool - a valuable asset in industry.

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This is the briefest of posts, because the content is entirely thanks to the wonderful xkcd comic, and it's pretty damn nerdy.
First person in the comments to exclaim that they get it, and can give some sort of rationale, gets a prize.
The SPAN element has very similar properties to the DIV element, in that it changes the style of the text it encloses. But without any style attributes, the SPAN element won't change the enclosed items at all.
The primary difference between the SPAN and DIV elements is that SPAN doesn't do any formatting of it's own. The DIV element includes a paragraph break. The SPAN element simply tells the browser to apply the style rules to whatever is within the SPAN.
Gabriel, that is a much more complete answer than I was expecting!
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Q: Using a Macbook Pro alongside an iMac If I have a 27" iMac, I understand I can use the display as an external monitor for my Macbook Pro. Presumably I can use the bluetooth keyboard as well as an external input?
Can you still run the iMac (and maybe instantly switch between them?). e.g. if I'm working on the Macbook using the iMac as a display, can I still listen to music on the iTunes library that's on my iMac, or switch to it to read a file (or download something from iTunes etc)?

A: Using your mac in target display mode would waste it's potential as a more power computer than your MacBook. Try an app like Teleport. It lets you network your multiple Macs together so that a host Mac's mouse and keyboard can be used to control other Macs. It works very similarly to multiple displays on a single machine, and even the clip board is shared between the two! The only issue is that you can't drag windows between the two displays (which are actually running on two separate computers), but at least both Mac's power can be used.

A: chLook up Target Display Mode under the Finder help menu. You can easily switch back and forth, and your iMac's apps (iTunes) will continue to run even when not visible:

After you connect the computers, the external display Mac acts like
  any other external display. Apps that were open on the external
  display Mac remain open even though you can't see their windows. To
  change display settings, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and
  then click Displays on the primary computer.

You'll need the appropriate cable (Thunderbolt or Mini DisplayPort).  Switching is just Command -F2.

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After what feels like ages (actually, 5 months is quite a long time!) I have finished my fieldwork, hurrah! I sampled soil and leaf-litter invertebrates, and microbes, in total of 38 sites in 6 different land-use types (deciduous forest, coniferous forest, heathland, pasture, cropland and urban areas) with the aim to compare how species differ between them.
For the last couple of months I have been doing fieldwork in the New Forest – a National Park in my home county of Hampshire. The New Forest was previously sampled by the Natural History Museum Soil Biodiversity Group during the New Forest Qualitative Inventory in 2010 and I have been revisiting some of the sites and also new ones. The aim of my sampling is to collect soil and leaf litter invertebrates, and soil cores for microbial analysis in six different land uses which correspond to those used in the PREDICTS project: mature secondary vegetation, immature secondary vegetation (heathland), plantation forest, grassland, cropland and urban areas.
This Throwback Thursday is from my trip to Scotland with the Dipterists Forum in September 2013, a wonderful week in the highlands collecting flies which I wrote up as a guest post for the Natural History Museum Curator of Diptera's Blog.
Between handing in my MSc thesis and my viva voce, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to join Dipterists from the Natural History Museum on a collection trip to Scotland as part of the Dipterists Forum Autumn Field Meeting. Despite the daunting prospect of a long journey and sharing a cottage with people I barely knew I couldn't pass up the opportunity for an intensive week studying flies which was also my first trip across the border.
This week's Throwback Thursday is about the cabbage white butterflies I had on my London balcony back in August 2013 while I was studying for my MSc. This also formed the basis of an article in the Amateur Entomologist's Society Bug Club Magazine.
It is true you do not have to go far to see wildlife, even in the midst of a big city. Invertebrate scholars are particularly fortunate in this regard as insects, arachnids etc. really are everywhere, in your home and even on you. Here in my student room in Earls Court, London I have a little balcony which I have used to grow salad and tomatoes.
My first music festival – with science!
I enjoy music, but until now had never been to a music festival, all those crowds of people, loud noise and camping was not something I thought I could cope with. However I was aware from talking to my colleagues at the University of Reading last year that festivals are not just about music, and often have stands and science activities run by universities and other institutions. This felt like something I would enjoy so I put it on my mental list of 'things to do while studying for a PhD'. I was very excited to see a call from the Royal Society of Biology and British Ecological Society for volunteers to help run ecology themed activities and bioblitz (an event where you try to identify as many species as possible) at Latitude Festival in Suffolk.
I've been a bit lax with my blogging over the last few weeks as I have been busy writing and submitting my early stage assessment – a report of what I have done so far in my PhD and what I plan to do next. This will be followed up with a short viva from my panel – eek! So it was good to get a day out doing outreach at Imperial College Silwood Park a few days after submitting. Silwood Park is Imperial's postgraduate campus near Ascot, Berkshire, with research and teaching in ecology, evolution, and conservation. One of my supervisors is based there, so I occasionally visit for meetings and eventually will be going there to extract and analyse microbial DNA from my soil samples.


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HomeOpinionBlue Peas and Other 2-Strip Technicolor Marvels
Blue Peas and Other 2-Strip Technicolor Marvels
Nov 20, 2014 The Retro Set Opinion 0
Not long ago I was watching Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, which I've watched multiple times—not because I feel it is necessarily a great film, but because few modern films have so accurately pinpointed the look and feel of early Hollywood. A friend of mine was watching it with me (and I must say, watching it with a non-classic film lover is quite a strange experience … i.e., having to explain who Katharine Hepburn is and why Cate Blanchett's performance is so fantastic …) when suddenly she shouted out in horror: "Eew! Gross! Leo's peas are blue!"
So they were.
While a band pounds away the happy beat of "Happy Feet" at Hollywood's favorite playground, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) sits down to a dinner of steak and peas. The point of the scene is to accentuate Hughes' germophobia when Errol Flynn (played by a gleeful Jude Law) reaches over and steals a few of Hughes' peas with his fingers and stuffs them in his mouth. Hughes reacts with visible disgust, pushing his plate away, the food in front of him now contaminated and inedible.
But all my friend could focus on was the fact that Hughes' peas weren't green … they were blue.
Or, to be more accurate, cyan. And I love it that way.
Howard Hughes' dinner in The Aviator
Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett) court on a golf course with blue grass
Scorsese had done a near flawless job of recreating the old Technicolor "two strip" color process that so aptly coincided with the setting of the Cocoanut grove scene: Hollywood, circa 1930. Scorsese's team was as obsessive to perfect the period color as Hughes was obsessive about, well, everything. Following Hughes' life, moving from the late '20s to the mid '30s and 40s, The Aviator's color palette progresses right along with the time frame: in the early '30s the grass looks cyan but by the early '40s the greens are deep and rich as the film switches to re-create the saturated "three-strip" Technicolor look of the period. Our eyes adjust and it seems much more … well … normal. (Although, there really isn't anything normal about three-strip Techinicolor, but that's another blog post …)
It is the earlier "two strip" process that so shocked my friend, and is why it's perhaps a good thing to understand what it was and why it's results were so very unique. This particular process was called "Subtractive Two-Color Dye Transfer Print," (often referred to, albeit incorrectly, as "two strip") and was used between 1927 and 1933.
Wait, what? Isn't Gone with the Wind the first color movie?
Le sigh. No. And while we're on the topic, neither was The Wizard of Oz. I'm not actually sure how the popular misnomer came to be, but Gone with the Wind and its 1939 Best Film competitor Oz are far from the first color films– although they were, without question, a pinnacle of the Technicolor technology up to that point.
You're gorgeous, Dorothy and Scarlett, but color in film pre-dates you by nearly 20 years.
Way back in 1927, the two color process mimicked in Scorsese's The Aviator, was a marked improvement on the previous (that's right, previous: color on film dates back to 1917) "Subtractive Cement" print procedure. With Subtractive Cement, the film matrices were literally bathed in dye, then cemented back-to-back to the original for printing. Starting in 1927, the wizards at Technicolor (namely Herbert Kalmus) developed a technique for matrices to be optically generated from the actual camera negative.
According to the extensive website The Widescreen Museum: "[the new process] used the matrices to transfer the dye to a specially prepared clear base film. The groundbreaking dye transfer process won substantial acclaim and Technicolor's output increased markedly from 1928 through 1930."
It is this process that Scorsese had his special effects team employ to recreate the warm dreaminess of early movie color in The Aviator. Scorsese's film has a fantastic special effects website where it describes the technique more succinctly than my non-technical brain ever could:
"Natural skin tone was achieved by filming two black and white strips of film (with a red and green filter on the lens) and later adding Yellow dye to the resulting Cyan and Magenta printing matrices. The yellow dye makes up for the lack of yellow color found in skin tone pigment but ultimately can not reproduce yellow or any shade or variation of blue (as a result of the missing blue layer.) The resulting matrices appear orange and a warmer version of cyan more than the normal magenta and cyan found in the later three color process. This look creates an odd but pleasing hand-painted look where faces appear normal and green takes on a blue-green quality while the sky and all things blue appear cyan."
Like peas!
Here's how Scorsese's crew did it in 2004:
Here's how Kalmus did it in 1927:
Original System Example, Courtesy Widescreen Museum.
Result: Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
Some of the earlier subtractive color systems, namely from 1922-1926, likewise produced some truly eye-popping moments in some of the era's best silent films. Silent films were resplendent with color: often hand tinted to evoke mood or time of day, they also often featured segments of color film to often stunning results.
Anna May Wong's ethereal beauty captured forever on film in 1922's The Toll of the Sea:
Anna May Wong in The Toll of the Sea, 1922
Lon Chaney's dramatic staircase descent in the 1925 horror classic The Phantom of the Opera:
Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera, 1925
Beautiful Ramon Navarro's triumphant procession through ancient Rome in the original Ben-Hur (1925), as well as Betty Bronson's appearance as the Virgin Mary:
Ben-Hur, 1925
The swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks and gorgeous Billie Dove in The Black Pirate (1925):
The Black Pirate, 1926
And, appropriately enough, Howard Hughes' silent-to-sound war epic Hell's Angels (1930), featuring the only color footage in existence of Jean Harlow (who is played by Gwen Stefani in Scorsese's The Aviator):
Hell's Angels (1930).
And finally, here's the process in action. A few years ago, Kodak released test color footage from 1922, featuring actress Hope Hampton who models costumes from the film Light in the Dark (which was the first commercial use of Kodachrome's two-color process) as well as Ziegfeld girl Mary Eaton and silent superstar Mae Murray.
Kodak sums it up perfectly: "Actress Mae Murray appears almost translucent, her flesh a pale white that is reminiscent of perfectly sculpted marble, enhanced with touches of color to her lips, eyes, and hair."
Watch the entire clip and prepare to be thoroughly enchanted:
Hell's Angels
Kodachrome
Lon Chaney
Mae Murray
Natalie Kalmus
Ramon Novarro
The Black Pirate
"SALVADOR" Means "Salvation" and Other Oliver Stone Musings
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)
President Fonda in Sidney Lumet's FAIL-SAFE
Aug 11, 2013 The Retro Set Movies, Reviews 0
Sidney Lumet's 1964 political thriller Fail-Safe is one of greatest Cold War films to come out of the Cold War era. This bleak, atomic drama is a film on par with Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Dr. […]
Pioneers of African American Cinema: An Interview with Kino Lorber's Bret Wood
Feb 24, 2015 The Retro Set Interviews 0
For more than 40 years, Kino has been a fearless leader in classic film restoration and distribution. Since its Kino-Lorber merge in 2009, their stronghold on the home video market has only intensified, producing Blu-ray/DVD […]
The Very Necessary "EVIL"
Apr 25, 2014 Drew Morton Movies, Reviews 1
By Drew Morton In the construction of my noir canon, I set myself two ground rules at the start: I would cover only the classical period from 1941 to 1958 and I would limit the […]


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There is always a reason why your work related problem comes to the surface and gives you pain. Usually longer hours at your desk or behind the wheel can begin to put strain on your body. Then increased stress levels begin to highlight our weaknesses. And finally, when we have less time to exercise our ability to counteract that sitting posture diminishes and it really turns up the volume on your pain.
Slouching at our desk encourages our shoulders to become rounded. This can result in poor alignment of the shoulder muscles ('rotator cuff') encouraging areas of poor blood supply and 'acid in the tissues' causing aches and burning pains.
Neck pain is often caused by a forward-chin posture as we then tend to hinge or look up at our computer screen or environment. This can irritate joints in the neck and possibly cause arm pain and even tingling. Sustained positions at work can cause bad posture that may cause strains to the joints and discs in the low back.
Overuse of the keyboard and mouse causes our tendons (extensions of our muscles which attach to bone) and the sheath which encases them to become inflamed. This may make the gliding movement of the tendon in its sheath difficult as we type. As a sufferer you may experience aching, tenderness and mild swelling of the elbow, wrist, hand or thumb.
Carpal tunnel syndrome usually has more than one cause. In individuals based at a computer persistent use of their forearm muscles can inflame the tendons at the wrist. As there is limited space in the tunnel of the wrist the swollen tendons increase the pressure on the nerve and causes pain and tingling in the hand.
Existing restrictions or strains in the joints of the neck will encourage muscles to be tight. These can generate headaches typically at the base of the skull, top of the head and around the eyebrow area. Furthermore a forward-chin posture at your desk can cause the muscles behind the neck to work harder to hold your head up. This is treated with manipulation of the problematic muscles and joints to improve movement and therefore comfort.
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I guess they wanted to keep it a secret? In any event, TRIUMF's 2018 year of celebrating their 50th anniversary is almost over. Their celebratory website, TRIUMF50 lists two events (scroll down to see them) for October 2018 and nothing after that. One event is in Ottawa (which is titled '#DiscoverTHIS: TRIUMF, Science, and Society' on the TRIUMF50 website) and the other in Vancouver (Canada). Then, there's the the other 50th sciencish anniversary in Vancouver, this being celebrated by the HR MacMillan Space Centre.
On October 3, join a team of experts from TRIUMF […], Canada's particle accelerator centre, for an illuminating discussion. The event will take place at the museum, and will also include a screening of a short documentary that explores the possibility for TRIUMF to take up the reins as the world's largest producer of actinium-225 (Ac-225), a radioisotope with promising potential as an anti-cancer therapy.
How exactly does a scientist's eureka moment turn into the internet, the satellite, the next generation of cancer therapy? Join a team of experts from TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre, for an illuminating discussion that sheds light on the journey from our research to you.
The event will include a screening of "The Rarest Drug on Earth," a short documentary that explores the possibility for TRIUMF to take up the reins as the world's largest producer of actinium-225 (Ac-225), a radioisotope with promising potential as an anti-cancer therapy.
On dit que la nécessité est mère de l'invention. Si ce dicton est vrai, alors la curiosité qui alimente la recherche serait, elle, grand-mère de tout le processus. L'internet, le téléphone cellulaire, la tomographie par émission de positrons ou, si on remonte encore plus loin, la radio, la pénicilline et l'électricité, toutes ces inventions, qui ont changé nos vies, auraient été impossibles sans ces personnes innovatrices qui se sont intéressées aux découvertes scientifiques et qui se sont demandé quels problèmes elles pouvaient résoudre grâce à celles-ci. Mais comment l'éclair de génie d'un chercheur donne-t-il naissance à l'internet, au satellite ou à la nouvelle génération de traitement contre le cancer?
Joignez-vous à un groupe d'experts de TRIUMF, le Centre canadien d'accélération des particules, pour une discussion éclairante qui fera la lumière sur les étapes du processus, des chercheurs jusqu'à vous.
L'événement comprendra la projection du court documentaire The Rarest Drug on Earth, qui explore la possibilité que TRIUMF devienne le plus grand producteur mondial d'actinium-225 (AC-225), un radio-isotope prometteur dans le traitement contre le cancer.
On a clear night, away from the bright lights of Vancouver, you can see the incredible expanse of the universe before you. To study these far-away celestial bodies, scientists use a "radiation toolkit" to observe our universe and understand how the galaxies we see today came to be. Some types of radiation, such as infrared radiation, can sense stars in their infancy, not yet hot enough to shine visible light. Others, like x-rays and gamma rays, can reveal matter being sucked into a black hole.
When it comes to studying the nuclear processes in the heart of stars, scientists must turn to neutrinos: subatomic particles that are currently flying unbeknownst through your body by the billions, right this second. These elusive little particles are an excellent probe into the core of the sun and distant supernovae, but they are notoriously difficult to detect. Difficult, but not impossible.
On Tuesday, October 23, join Dr. Stanley Yen, TRIUMF Research Scientist, for his talk, Detecting the Ghost Particles of the Universe.
This lecture is presented in partnership by TRIUMF and Science World as part of the TRIUMF 50th Anniversary Unveiling the Universe Lecture Series.
Some may have noticed that I'm still referring to TRIUMF as Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics. I know it has changed but I prefer it to the latest one, TRIUMF (Canada's particle accelerator centre).
Join the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in celebrating their 50th anniversary with a very special evening of music under the cosmic visuals of the Planetarium Star Theatre. Composer Thomas Beckman will be premiering an original work "Life in the Universe" inspired by the unique character of the planets in our solar system and the wonders of our Universe. The suite will be performed by Thomas Beckman and the Borealis String Quartet.
Thomas Beckman, CMC [Canadian Music Centre] associate composer, has written for a wide range of ensembles that include the Borealis String Quartet, the Vancouver Symphony orchestra, the Prince George Symphony orchestra, the Postmodern Camerata and the Vancouver Youth Choir. For the past several years he has served as Festival Composer for the Artists for Conservation organization, as the in-house-composer for the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network and as a freelance film composer for several award-winning independent documentaries. With an MMus in western classical performance from the University of British Columbia, Thomas also serves as principal violist of the Vancouver Pops Symphony and the Prince George Symphony orchestra, and performs solo with his looping project for a number of events held by the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Semperviva Yoga studios, and the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Thomas' latest project has been to create the Jean Coulthard Music Video series in collaboration with the Canadian Music Centre as a means to empower local composers in BC.
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We're turning 50 – help us celebrate! Bring the entire family out and enjoy our programming and special activities on Saturday and Sunday. Discover more about our past 50 years of science and space education as we pull some gems from our archives and explore how producing shows in the planetarium has changed over the decades. Share your memories of the Space Centre on our memory wall and create a card for Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques as he prepares for his mission to the International Space Station in December. We'll be testing your knowledge with trivia questions before each show in the Planetarium Star Theatre and we'll have a birthday treat for all to eat.
$5 for general admission and children under 5 are free.
We will be open from 10:00am – 5:00pm on Saturday and Sunday for the celebration with activities running from 10:30am – 4:30pm.
1968 seems to have been quite the sciencish year in Vancouver.
One last anniversary and this is a national one, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) is celebrating its sesquicentennial (150th) in 2018 just one year after the country's sesquicentennial in 2017. First mentioned here in a July 2, 2018 posting about celebratory events in Toronto, There don't seem to be any more events planned for this year but RASC's 150th Anniversary webpage lists resources such as podcasts and more for you delectation.
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This time of year, for a high school student, can be a bit of a whirlwind. As a footballer, that means that the end of my season and any reflections I have on it tend to get caught up in a haze of internal assessments, prizegivings and exams. However, in this brief interlude, I have had the time to stop and really think about the season that has just flown past me. Here are my Top 5 highlights of this year.
It is a somewhat shallow highlight to have and far more quantitative than I traditionally am, but this season the league placing for all three of my teams cannot be overlooked. I have been lucky enough to be a member of 3 teams that nabbed 2nd place, two of which by but a singular point. So close and yet so far, but I cannot bring my perfectionist self to be overly upset.
I have never been to a school tournament week… wait that's what I would have written two months ago. Now, I can say that I have been to one and it was amazing. You can read my post-tournament depression ramblings here, but suffice to say that spending a week bonding with my team and of course, escaping the clutches of a classroom, well and truly makes the highlights reel.
It was 7am on a Saturday when thunderous rain woke me up and a familiar sense of dread settled in. Heavy rain on a Saturday, with a game scheduled at the infamous Sunnynook, is not exactly a recipe for getting some footy in. Yet as the hours ticked by NFF and AFF stayed silent and so I headed out into the abysmal Auckland day. The field was in bad shape as we warmed up and was worsening by the second. The rain continued and thus, by the time we and Bucklands Beach (who had to drive one hour for this farcical fixture) stepped onto the pitch, it could be more aptly described as a swimming pool.
As I and my strike partner stood with the ball over what we estimated was the centre of the pitch, I poked at the ball to see if it would roll. It did not. In the ensuing 85 minutes of madness, I played the worst and most enjoyable match of my entire life. The ball did not roll, no, and as a pacey striker with not much else in my locker I should have been angry. I should have been fuming when I was denied another goal to my tally not by the keeper's gloves but by a puddle on the line. I should have been frustrated by the face full of mud or the borderline hypothermia and instead, I had the most fun I have had since I was a 7th grader. We played football without being terrified of the result; we had to stop taking ourselves as seriously. The mud slide game, as I have affectionately called it, was awesome.
Disclaimer: I should add that we won, which has slanted my perceptions somewhat.
Not Sunnynook, but yet another water-logged pitch. This game was called off for 10 minutes due to hail.
Allow me to set the scene. Having lost to our local rivals Pinehurst (who had come down into Senior A from Premier and were looking to sweep straight back up) in our only other two previous fixtures, an overcast, rain-threatening Wednesday afternoon found us locked in a 1-1 arm wrestle on Kristin's "FIFA Field".
The equation was fairly simple; to have any hope of defending our title we had to beat what was arguably the strongest side in the league. The match was physical and end to end and both sides were getting tired. When we earned a corner with about 12 minutes to play, the only reason I even suggested taking it short was because I simply could not find it in myself to run from where I had seen my cross blocked to any sort of attacking position in the box. Hence, I stayed right where I had stopped, roughly a metre from the corner flag. Once it was all in motion I soon realised that our opponents were still talking to one another and had absolutely no idea what was happening. By the time one defender tried to press me, it was all too simple.
I've played football for 12 years. I've never had a short corner work in a game before. I have never really had the gumption to try one, to be fair, but I am glad that this time we gambled because the goal was incredible, and oh-we won this game too.
This is a weird one and if you'd shown number 5 on this list to 12th grade, hyper-competitive me, I wouldn't have understood it. I, like most footballers, live for the match day. Yet, trainings in the wind and rain, on freezing Auckland nights, the same trainings that ate up at least an hour and a half of my day every single day, that probably lowered my chemistry grade more than somewhat, were without a doubt one of the best parts of the season.
I am not a fan of fitness. I will admit that. Sometimes, working out formations was boring. Being made to run a lap was irritating. Messing something up over and over again was frustrating. Yet all of these things took place with my team mates. We weren't fighting tooth and nail for a win, we weren't hell bent on beating another team, we were simply working with, for and against each other to be the best that we collectively could be. Sure, the fire of match day forges camaraderie but that bond starts with the hours on the training pitch.
And so, when all is said and done and my weekends are empty whilst summer leagues await, I am left with one thought; it really has been quite a season.
A lover of the game since the age of 4. Living and playing for club and school in Auckland and loving every second on the pitch (apart from the end of a losing match).


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Just take off the fork and replace it with the hook. You can get a completely different model within a few seconds!
There are 7 different keys on the transmitter. Each is associated with a function. Therefore, you can command the RC vehicle as you like.
The remote control system uses 2.4GHz signals which feature excellent anti-interference, so you are able to control the truck 30m away and even with 100 RC models nearby.


A joy ride in Vernon that was shared on social media now has one car dealership employee facing charges.
A local radio station DJ went to the grand opening of Prestige Autocars on Hartford Turnpike in Vernon on August 19.
Jason Napoletano, an employee of Prestige Autocars, took the radio DJ out for a ride in a green Lamborghini. The DJ posted the video on Facebook Live. While the video was deleted online, NBC Connecticut was able to obtain it.
"Once that was posted on the internet we got a flood of calls which peaked our interest," Vernon police officer Aaron Grechko said.
In the video, Napoletano said he reached speeds around 100 miles an hour.
By looking at the video, police did their own calculations and confirmed. Police said the car was driving about 100 miles in a 40 mph zone, according to a report.
"The road they traveled on is a very heavily trafficked area. It's a main road- several lanes of traffic both ways and traveling that fast on that roadway is pretty dangerous," Grechko said.
"The good news is I'm friends with the mayor and the police, so we won't get in trouble," Napoletano can be heard saying in the video.
Napoletano was charged with reckless driving and was released on a promise to appear.
"If he was friends with us then he would know we take our job very seriously and wouldn't do that," Grechko said.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 25.
NBC Connecticut reached out to Napoletano and did not hear back.
Prestige Autocars declined to comment.


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In The Politics of Autism, I discuss the issue's role in presidential campaigns. In the 2016 campaign, a number of posts discussed Trump's support for the discredited notion that vaccines cause autism. He also has a bad record on science and disability issues more generally.
During the campaign, Trump appeared on Dr. Oz's show.
CNN reports:
The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump intends to appoint Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, to his council on sport, fitness and nutrition.
Oz is well-known as a host of an eponymous television show on health and medical issues and, before that, for appearances on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." But he has become a lightning rod for controversy for featuring what critics say is unscientific advice on his show.
In 2014, a congressional panel questioned Oz over his promotion of weight-loss products on his television show.
"The scientific community is almost monolithic against you in terms of the efficacy of the three products you called 'miracles,'" Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, said during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation subcommittee hearing.
The following year, a group of doctors criticized him harshly, saying he manifested "an egregious lack of integrity" in his TV and promotional work and called his faculty position at Columbia University unacceptable.
In 2014, Orac (Dr. David Gorski) wrote at Respectful Insolence:
[In] addition to the quackery and weight loss supplements that he promotes regularly on his show, Dr. Oz has started down the path to become antivaccine, if he's not antivaccine already. Of course, I had seen rumblings of antivaccine proclivities coming from Dr. Oz before. For example, nearly five years ago, he was interviewed by Joy Behar, as noted on the antivaccine crank blog Age of Autism. During that interview, he admitted that his children had not received their flu shots during the H1N1 pandemic and strongly implied that his wife had been responsible, saying, "I`m in a happy marriage and my wife who makes most of the important decisions as most couples have in their lives who absolutely refuses." Of course, at the time I knew that Oz's wife is a reiki master and clearly heavily into quackery. Whether it was she who influenced Oz to go as far as he has into the wild world of woo or whether he discovered it himself, I don't know. What I do know is that anyone who produces a segment like the one he produced on yesterday The Dr. Oz Show is well on his way to being antivaccine. What do I mean?
Take a look at the thimerosal segment on yesterday's The Dr. Oz Show, and you'll quickly see what I mean:
The Truth About Thimerosal, Part 1The Truth About Thimerosal, Part 2
Dr. Oz had as guests on his show antivaccine loon Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his partner in crime against vaccine science, "functional medicine" expert Dr. Robert Hyman, on his show in a credulous segment about the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal that buys into virtually every trope about mercury in vaccines promulgated by the antivaccine movement. The reason, of course, is because Kennedy and Hyman have a book out. It's a book entitled Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: Mercury Toxicity in Vaccines and the Political, Regulatory, and Media Failures That Continue to Threaten Public Health that I've discussed before in which, as I put it, Kennedy parties about thimerosal like it's 1999.
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Nick McKenzie is an Australian investigative journalist. He has won 14 Walkley Awards, been twice named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year and also received the Kennedy Award for Journalist of the Year in 2020 and 2022. He is the president of the Melbourne Press Club.

McKenzie is known for his work exposing corruption in politics, business, foreign affairs/defence, human rights issues and policing/criminal justice. He works for Melbourne's The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review, and has reported for Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners and Nine's 60 Minutes.

Life and career
McKenzie graduated from RMIT University, Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) in 2001. He also holds a Masters in International Politics from the University of Melbourne and is currently obtaining a Melbourne JD (Juris Doctor), from Monash University.

He firstly worked as a cadet journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, later joining Fairfax Media (publisher of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald). McKenzie's reporting has led to a number of government inquiries and police investigations, including a federal police probe into political donations given by alleged mafia figures.

In 2009, a report by McKenzie and colleague Richard Baker into foreign bribery involving Reserve Bank of Australia subsidiaries sparked a national scandal. It led to Australia's first-ever foreign bribery prosecution in 2011 and guilty pleas of RBA firms Securency and Note Printing Australia. McKenzie and Baker were awarded a Walkley Award for Investigative Reporting for their investigation, which also led to the governor of the Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens, testifying before a Senate committee to respond to allegations the bank mishandled the scandal.

In 2012, McKenzie's reporting on corruption and organised crime within the Australian Customs service was recognised with a Walkley Award. The reporting led to reforms of the Australian customs service announced in 2013 by Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare and overseen by former NSW judge James Wood.
In 2012, McKenzie obtained confidential Victoria Police files documenting the suicides of at least 40 people sexually abused by Catholic clergy in Victoria. Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu immediately called a parliamentary inquiry into abuse allegations by religious clergy.

A 2012 interview McKenzie conducted with sports scientist Steven Dank was used by Australia's anti-doping agency ASADA in its controversial doping case against the Essendon Football Club.

In 2014, a news story by McKenzie on Four Corners into abuse in disability care homes led to a Victorian Ombudsman inquiry and a federal senate inquiry, which recommended a royal commission that was later announced by the Morrison Government.

McKenzie has been involved in many high profile stories.  He interviewed Australian terrorist leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika before Benbrika was prosecuted for leading terror cells in Sydney and Melbourne. During Benbrika's court case, the public prosecutor told the court that Benbrika was covertly recorded by authorities claiming that he had threatened McKenzie, telling him to "watch yourself" and that he knew how to find the reporter.

In 2014, a report co-authored by McKenzie on an undisclosed multi-million dollar payment to Hong Kong chief executive CY Leung from Australian company UGL, prompted widespread calls for Leung's resignation and sparked an investigation by Hong Kong authorities.

In 2016, McKenzie and Baker revealed the Unaoil oil industry corruption scandal that implicated some of the world's biggest oil industry firms, including Rolls-Royce, ABB, Petrofac and Halliburton in alleged corruption involving a Monaco firm called Unaoil. In 2019, the founders of Unaoil pleaded guilty to bribery and corruption offences in the United States.

McKenzie is Jewish

Documentaries
McKenzie was awarded the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award and the Lowy Institute Media Award for reporting on foreign interference in Australia by the Chinese Communist Party.

His 2017 Four Corners documentary program Power and Influence reported that ASIO had warned Australian political parties about receiving donations from two men, billionaires Huang Xiangmo and Chau Chak Wing.  It also reported that former Trade Minister Andrew Robb had been hired on a $880,000 yearly consultancy by a company closely linked to the Chinese government.

The story was a catalyst for Australia's controversial counter foreign interference laws and later led to the resignation of senator Sam Dastyari over his dealings with Huang.  Huang was expelled from Australia by ASIO on security grounds, but denied the allegations about him, while Chau Chak Wing commenced defamation proceedings.

In July 2019, McKenzie presented Crown Unmasked detailing corporate misconduct involving Crown Resorts, including allegations Crown was working with casino junket operators owned by Hong Kong's triads. The investigation also reported Australia's Department of Home Affairs favoured visa applications by Crown's VIP gamblers, including criminals. Crown attacked the reporting in advertisements, describing it as "a deceitful campaign."  Crown's chairwoman Helen Coonan in 2020 told a commission of inquiry into Crown's suitability to hold a gaming licence that the advertisement contained significant errors. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission also opened probes into the money laundering allegations.

On 14 June 2020, McKenzie reporting for The Age and Nine Network 60 Minutes Australia released covert recordings purporting to show cabinet minister and Labor party power broker Adem Somyurek organising branch stacking. Somyurek is alleged to have registered local party members with false details, taking funds from business owners to pay for party membership fees, and directing ministerial staffers to engage in wrongdoing. Included in the numerous covert recordings, are several sections where Somyurek is heard making derogatory comments towards MPs Gabrielle Williams and Marlene Kairouz and ministerial staffers, which have been described as sexist and homophobic.

On 15 June 2020, Premier Dan Andrews sacked Somyurek from his cabinet and referred Somyurek's conduct to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission for further investigation. Andrews also wrote to the National Executive of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to seek the termination of Somyurek's party membership. Later that day, the Labor Party's national president, Wayne Swan, confirmed that Somyurek had resigned his membership and there would "never be a place for Somyurek in the ALP ever again".

Court cases and shield laws
In 2010, McKenzie and investigative reporters Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar revealed political parties were storing personal information about voters, raising privacy concerns. A Greens party candidate had supplied the password to the ALP Eleczilla voter profile database, prompting the police to charged the trio with unauthorised access to a restricted database. The trio admitted responsibility for the database access as part of a court diversion program, avoiding a conviction. The trio's barrister said there was a public interest in whether political parties should maintain such data and that investigative journalists provide "genuine service to this community." The Age published a news article acknowledging the unlawful conduct, while editor-in-chief Andrew Holden defended the reporting, stating investigative journalists needed to report public interest stories.

In a 2013 source case brought by a political donor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, three journalists including McKenzie made an application to keep their sources confidential, but could not rely on shield laws as they hadn't been introduced. Justice Lucy McCallum ruled a journalist's pledge to keep a source confidential "is not a right or an end in itself" and could be overridden "in the interests of justice," but the case was settled and no sources disclosed.

In 2015, McKenzie defeated a Victorian Supreme Court application brought by an alleged mafia figure for disclosure of his sources in the first legal test of Victoria's journalist shield laws. The case was described by the ABC's Media Watch program as a landmark test of source protection. The court ruled that identifying McKenzie's sources would jeopardise their safety, that there was a strong public interest in reporting on the mafia's infiltration of politics and that there would be a chilling effect if disclosure was granted. The Australian journalists' union, the MEAA, described the decision as "important for public interest journalism," but other reporting suggested shield laws still remained unsatisfactory. In his ruling, Supreme Court Justice John Dixon found that it was reasonable for police to suspect the alleged mafia figure placed a $200,000 "hit" on the suspected newspaper source.

In 2016, the alleged mafia boss abandoned his defamation legal action against The Age over a series of articles describing him as a mafia boss involved in murder, extortion and drug trafficking. The Age published an apology noting the man was never charged by the police, but did not retract reports identifying him as the head of the Calabrian mafia.

In 2017, the ABC reached a confidential settlement with the Chinese Students and Scholars Association president after she appeared in a Four Corners program reported by McKenzie about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in Australian politics and universities.  The president demanded an apology but this was refused and instead Four Corners added an editors note to the program transcript."

In 2017, McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters produced several reports detailing allegations that Australia's special forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan. They reported that Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith is under investigation by the federal police and the military inspector general. Roberts-Smith attacked the claims as unfounded and is suing McKenzie and Masters for defamation. The trial is due to commence in June 2021 in Sydney.

Awards and recognition
McKenzie has won Australia's top journalism award, the Walkley Award, ten times.

In 2010, McKenzie and colleague Richard Baker won the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism's George Munster prize.

In 2012, McKenzie and Baker were rated the third most influential journalists or editors in Australia by news website Crikey.

McKenzie has twice been named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, once alongside Baker (2017) and by himself in 2021. In 2019, McKenzie won the Lowy Institute Media Award for reporting on foreign interference in Australia.

In 2020, McKenzie was named the Kennedy Award's Journalist of the Year for his work exposing war crimes and corporate corruption. He won the award again in 2022.

McKenzie is the most decorated journalist in the history of the Melbourne Press Club's Quill Awards and has twice won the press club's highest award, the Gold Quill.

Walkley Awards
The annual Walkley Awards, under the administration of the Walkley Foundation for Journalism, are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. McKenzie's ten Walkley Awards include:

 2004 Walkley for exposing police corruption
 2008 Walkley for exposing organising crime and race fixing in Australian racing
 2011 Walkley for exposing corporate misconduct and bribery linked to Reserve Bank
 2013 Walkley for doping in the Australian Football League
 2013 Walkley for exposing corruption inside Australia's border force agency
 2014 Walkley for exposing corruption in construction industry and union movement
 2019 Walkley for exposing organised crime and foreign interference linked to Australia's biggest gaming company Crown Resorts
 2020 Walkley for exposing misconduct and the dark underbelly of Australian power in the 60 Minutes investigation "The Faceless Man"

Works
In 2012, McKenzie's book The Sting, about one of Australia's biggest organised crime and money laundering investigations, was published by Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) Victory Books.

McKenzie has also contributed to the Australian journalism textbooks, Australian Journalism Today (2012) and The Best Australian Business Writing (2012).

References

External links
 nickmckenzie.com.au Official website
 Nick McKenzie AU at youtube

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian investigative journalists
21st-century Australian journalists

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1997 DES Case: Wood v. Eli Lilly & Co.
… "The Appellants in the above-captioned appeal, are the Estate of Bettie W. Wood, Susan F. Wood and Jonathan H. Wood. Their mother took the drug Diethylstilbestrol ("DES") during her three pregnancies. The ingestion took place at various times in the years 1956, 1958, 1961, and 1962. The original complaint was filed March 1, 1988 in the Broward County Circuit Court against Eli Lilly and Company and the Upjohn Company, Inc. Defendants removed the action to the district court. The gravamen of the complaint was that the plaintiffs were exposed to the DES in utero,and suffered subsequent illness as a result.
WOOD v. ELI LILLY & CO., Leagle, 19971578131F3d1447_11397, December 29, 1997.
Bettie W. Wood was diagnosed with clear cell adenocarcinoma in August, 1978 and advised that there might be a connection between her condition and the DES taken by her mother. She underwent surgery followed by yearly medical examinations with no indication of a recurrence until, March 2, 1984, when she was notified that the cancer had recurred. She died in 1991.
There has never been a diagnosis of cancer for Susan Wood, although in 1976 she was diagnosed with vaginal adenosis, and advised that this condition was often associated with DES exposure. In January, 1987 she had an ectopic pregnancy and a therapeutic abortion, which she alleges was related to the ingestion of DES by her mother.
By order of September 19, 1989, the district court dismissed the action because the plaintiffs could not identify the manufacturer or manufacturers of the DES ingested by their mother.
The plaintiffs appealed to this court, and while the appeal was pending, the Supreme Court of Florida handed down its decision in Conley v. Boyle Drug Co., holding that a market share theory of liability could be used in DES cases to apportion liability." …
… continue reading the full paper WOOD v. ELI LILLY & CO. on Leagle.
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